IBM Announces PureSystems with Optimized and Integrated DB2 Patterns

Today IBM announced PureSystems, a new family of expert integrated systems. PureSystems are a combination of hardware, software and storage but if that’s all it was, well that would not be very interesting to say the least. What sets PureSystems apart is the built-in expertise that allows you to simplify your deployment of applications by using predefined expert patterns. A pattern is a deployable set of “components” if you will, which has been optimized for a given workload. For example, in the PureApplication system there are two database patterns preinstalled and ready to use. The fist is the IBM Transactional Database Pattern and the second is the IBM Data Mart Pattern. For both of these patterns we have taken years of database and database management know-how along with best practices and “baked” them into the pattern for deploying these types of workloads. And the other special part of PureSystems is the simplified experience via a single console interface for management of the system as well as for the deployment of patterns. To deploy a pattern you simply click on the deploy button, select the predefined pattern, specify a few pieces of resource information you want the pattern to use and press done. The system automatically provisions that pattern for you and after a few minutes you can have a DB2 database already configured based on best practices and ready to use. Click on a WebSphere Application Server pattern, link them together and bingo, you have an application server, database and application ready to run. In addition to simplifying your production workloads, Imagine how pattern deployment can benefit your dev and test teams and how much less time DBAs will have to spend creating systems for them to use. As well, the management and diagnostics goes from the hardware in the rack right up through the middleware to the application management, allowing you to visualize and resolve issues through the full stack.

The PureApplication System ships with both DB2 9.7 and 10.1 Enterprise Server pre-installed and ready to deploy. And the deployment interface even asks you if you want to run the DB2 instance in Oracle compatibility mode in the event you are migrating your Oracle applications to run them on DB2 inside the PureApplication System (in this case we turn on the compatibility mode as part of the database creation for you so you are good to go).

Here is a short video with Jason McGee, Chief Architect for PureApplication System giving you a tour of the new PureSystems offering.

More information on PureSystems and the deployment patterns already available from IBM and from Business Partners are available on the PureSystems portal.

Are patterns similar to "Wizards" that one commonly encounters when using a complex application? Do PureSystems use generally available DB2 product? Put other way, can an experienced DBA using similar hardware and storage tune plain vanilla DB2 to perform as well as the ones delivered by PureSystems?

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Chris is a DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows lifer having worked at IBM on DB2 since its inception. Follow along as Chris shares ...
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Chris is a DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows lifer having worked at IBM on DB2 since its inception. Follow along as Chris shares his experiences and provides tips and techniques for getting the most out of DB2 including how to exploit new features and releases as they come on-line.
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